§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 29 points between SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) and Pulsifi (Assessment): 62 (D) for SmartRecruiters, 33 (F) for Pulsifi. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Pulsifi leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Pulsifi 20, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Pulsifi is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pulsifi 30 · SmartRecruiters 70
8.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · SmartRecruiters 62
3.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · SmartRecruiters 48
2.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · SmartRecruiters 63
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pulsifi 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -29.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 29.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -29 beside that -29.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 78 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 48 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 63 | -17 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 62 (D) | -29 | -29.3 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Pulsifi | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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